Ha!
Come to think of it now, I never did set a bootable
partition for it! :)
Thanks Gael.
On Sun, 06 Dec 1998 12:53:56 +0100, Gael Duval wrote:
>Hello!
>
>me wrote:
>
>> Upon installing Mandrake 5.2 on a clean system
>> using "Custom" option I've found that it will not install
>> lilo on the partition I want, not on the master boot record.
>> I had to create a boot diskette in order to complete
>> the installation.
>>
>> Has anyone else had this problem?
>
>was it a "not active partition" problem?
>In this case, you need to boot with a LILO diskette, run fdisk, then
>select "toggle a bootable flag" for your primary linux partition and run
>lilo again.
>
>This problem should sometimes occur with RedHat 5.2 systems too
>(Mandrake 5.1 too).
>
>Greets,
>
> Gael.
>
>
>
